L’Appel du Pharo ! – tribune collective

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We have no other destiny and no other future than to re-establish our society with the Living World, to consider it as our best model but also as our most powerful and indispensable partner. « Teaming up with nature to shape the future »The "Appel du Pharo" is an invitation to citizens, researchers, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, influencers and politicians to become the gardeners of this new world.

Hubert Reeves was already warning us that we were waging a war against nature, and that if we won, we'd be finished! Yes, we have nothing to gain by destroying living things, but we have a lot to gain by listening to them and rebuilding them, for the sake of our own health and the future of humanity. These multiple crises that we are going through are perhaps also an opportunity to rediscover our unity as a species, our dependence on this world that we thought was outside «ours», and ultimately to rebuild ourselves, as a rebirth in a community of destinies.

To achieve this, we are calling for the development and support of science, knowledge and research as a breeding ground for understanding and solutions, to stimulate our curiosity and wonder, our ability to blend our talents to break out of our silos, to break out of our dogmas and chapels to open our minds and produce new ideas, to leave behind our posture of master who would like to be or believe himself to be in control and who is no longer so in the face of the collapse of biodiversity and the impacts of climate change. We are calling for our reintegration into the world.

Tomorrow has already begun, and our ecosystems are teeming with solutions, scientific knowledge, innovations and experiments that are proving themselves in the field and revealing that other fields of possibility exist. Our challenge is not always to create something new, it's also to grow what's already there.

In his famous speech in Chicago in 1970, Georges Pompidou said, «.« Man's hold over Nature has become such that it entails the risk of destroying Nature itself ». Here we are, but this dystopian warning now needs to be rephrased to take account of the fact that it is now ourselves that we are endangering, even more than Nature, which, even martyred, will survive us.

Our times need reconnection and healing. To build this new world and launch this new momentum, we propose a compass and 3 major coalitions to be implemented as accelerators of renewal.

The compass is Life

This idea of biomimicry, or more generally, of taking inspiration from Life, is powerful and universal. It opens up new narratives that are desirable and unifying, but it is also rational, pragmatic and non-dogmatic. Life is brilliant and powerful. With its 3.8 billion years of experience and evolution, it is thrifty with energy and resources, it works in short circuits, it does not standardise so that it is always the best adapted locally, it does not produce waste and pollution, and it favours cooperation and symbiotic benefits. Life is the specifications and instructions for our future. Let's invite it around the table, ask its opinion and its ideas for solving our challenges. The momentum is there, solutions are emerging, interest is growing, and France has excellence in this field!

Encouraging coalition between us

To pool our talents, to play as a team, to stop judging and verticalising ourselves, to encourage rather than criticise, to believe in creative hybridisation, in the benefits of linking research and industry, art and science, ecology and the economy, nature-based solutions, biomimicry, eco-design, the circular economy... all this is just a fantastic cupboard of tools. We need everything and everyone to design and build what comes next. The future is a symphony and a team sport. We won't win against each other or with just one player.

Re-engaging with Nature

Stop thinking of everything we do solely in terms of mankind. Rebuilding society with Nature means teaming up with the Living World again to re-learn, rediscover and (re)consider it as our best model and our most powerful partner. We need to reteach about life, at school and elsewhere!

Building the grand coalition between Biodiversity and Climate

Biodiversity and Climate are two related issues, but not of the same nature: Biodiversity is a SOLUTION to the Climate PROBLEM. The excess carbon in the air is not extraterrestrial, it comes from the life we burn, and cannot be returned, precisely because there is less life to reintegrate it. Carbon is the cycle of life, which knows how to manage, transform and store it. So, « if we want to decarbonise the atmosphere, we urgently need to recarbonise the Earth« . Biodiversity is our KEY issue, and everything else depends on it. Biodiversity budgets must match carbon budgets.

TEAMING UP, between ourselves, between research and industry, between the economy and ecology, between science and opinions, between Biodiversity and Climate, between the short and the long term, between our cultures, our duties and our desires, between our dreams and our realities ... teaming up between Nature and Man, to rebuild the future. We have everything we need to embark on this new journey.

Author, and initiative :

Alain Renaudin, President of NewCorp Conseil; founder of Biomim'expo.

Co-signatories

Robin Alauze, Founder, for Lineup Ocean
Barbara Albasio, Aquamour
Andrea Alfaro Jiménez, Student
Marc Amerigo, Zephir Project
Ludovic Amy, Founder and manager of URBANOÉ
Guillaume Andre-Wallut, Vertuose
Muriel Andrieu-Semmel, City of Marseille
Mathilde Angles
Guillaume Aper, Director of Communications
Muriel Barron, Fondation de la mer
Vincent Barthe for Entrepreneurs for the Planet
Clémence Bechu, Bechu & Associés
Magalie Bedel
Isa Ber, CSR Trainer
Marie-Léa Bernard
Serge Berthier, Physicist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris and researcher at the Paris Nanoscience Institute
Isabelle Berviller, CSR Trainer
Delphine Bianchini-Manno, Edhec Alumni
Christophe Blazy, Chief Operating Officer Virage Conseil
Léa Bloy, Environment Project Manager
Yves Bogaert, Business for Climate Convention
Estelle Bouillard, Strategy Manager
Isabelle Bouilloux, Chief digital officer
Christine Bourru, Medit & Sons
Marie-Aimee Boury, Head of Impact Based Finance, Société Générale
Marc Boussaguet, Food Bank
Delphine Bouvier, International director R&I, sustainable development, green sciences programme, L'Oréal
Belkacem Bouzouidja, Student
Olivier Bret, CEC Provence Méditerranée
Thomas Breuzard, Perma-Company Director, norsys
Germain Briand, Director Bio
Elsa Brindazur, Training Consultant Sustainable and regenerative innovation
Dorothée Browaeys, Vivant futur Lab
Gil Burban, Ceebios
François Cadiergue, Ecole des Vivants
Pauline Castaing, Scientific Mediator, Bleu Tomate
CEC Provence Méditerranée
Pascal Chalvon Demersay, PACTYS
Marlène Chavagnac, Head of R&D and Innovation, Scientific Communication and Medical Affairs, Institut des futurs souhaitables
Tarik Chekchak, Institut des Futurs souhaitables
David Ciribino, Sustainable Food Coordinator, Banque Alimentaire
Alexis Claisse, Ajc now
Anne Claudius-Petit, Regional Biodiversity and Environment Agency
Jérôme Cohen, Engage
Evelyne Cohen Lemoine, We are alive
Laurent Coppin, Le French POC
Lucile Cornet-Verner, Founder and Vice-President of Maison de l'Artemisia
Emmanuel Coste, EAULISTIC
Satine Courtoy, DPVA parliament of life
Lucie Couturier, Head of R&D Actives Ingredients, Gattefossé
Denis Cristol, Learning differently together
Adélaïde d'Huart
Anya Dahmani, Inhabitant of the Earth
Emmanuel Delannoy, Project Manager, Réseau Territoires et Entreprises French Office for Biodiversity
Fanny Deléage, Founder-CEO, Renature
Albin Delisle, Collegian
Lola Denisan, Lolatypique
Maya Denisan
Anne Desmaison, OliviAnne
Nathalie Devulder, committed citizen
Thomas Didier, Asteria
Darja Dubravcic, Wild Innovation Agency
Gilles Dufraisse, producer
Arnaud Dujany, Director of Research UniLaSalle Amiens
Jeremy Dumont, We are alive
Marie Dupouey, CNFPT Training Advisor
Sophie Durieux, Executive independent consultant
Yves Emo, Emo Concept
Delphine Eriau, Health & Society Strategic Partner
Séverine Fantapie, Co-founder of the Fresque de l'économie régénératrice (Fresco of the regenerative economy)
Loïc Fayet, Business for Climate Convention
Olivier Floch, Biomim'expo
Alexis François, CY Alliance Project Director, CY Cergy Paris Université
Axel Frick, Citizens of the Earth
Frédéric Gay, Mu Architecture
Pierre Gérard, Regards mêlés, FSSD France
Bruno Goimier, Communications Director, Pernod Ricard
Eliot Graeff, Asteria
Pierre Guille, La Marseillaise
Muriel Guillet, Founder of AREVIA, Support for business transfers and takeovers
Serap Gülmez, Architect, STK Architecture
Celine Gyselinck, Libre
Marjorie Hagobian, Marha Cobseil
Thibaut Houette, PhD, architect, Ceebios project manager
Jane Hubert, NatExplore
Rafael Jacquelain, Sales Director, La Marseillaise
Laurence Janet, Town planner
Philippe Jaquet, Founder @ esprit collectif and Monde Sensible
Malvina Jucquois, Concerned Citizen
Christine Julien, Dynamo Solutions
Célia Juspin, Les Ateliers ecocitoyens
Amokrane Kaddour, ENPC
Sidonie Laban, Cité Fab
Sandy Lang
Yuma Langenbach, Biomimicry educator Wageningen University
Myriam Lapierre, Citizen committed to the Living World
Florence Larcade, Metropole Television
Maider Lassus Olasagasti, Biomimetics Project Manager, New Aquitaine Region
Sandrine Lecointe, Oane
Maud Lelièvre, Chair of the IUCN French Committee, Council member IUCN
Joachim Lémeri, Supplément d'âme
Annie Lisena, Environmental consultant
Estelle Loing, Managing Director Naemos
Magali Loubry, Innovation Programme Manager, Crédit Agricole technologies et services
Paméla Magotte, Retro-inginerie du Vivant
Marion Maistre, Transition Consultant, Les Cueilleuses
Ludovic Malbet, MUarchitecture
Anne-Gentiane Mandeau, R&D Project Manager Lucas Meyer Cosmetics by Clariant
Simon Mandin, Creative designer, Albatros, La Boite Bienfaite
Léonor Manent, Liens et Nature
Laurence Mariotte, Interior architect / teacher
Emmanuel de Martel, Research engineer, in transition
Luisa Maschio, Head of communication and marketing ESSEC Executive Education
Agathe Maussion, CEO Nonoké ecological engineer
Jocelyn Meire, Mode in Sud and FASK
Valerie Merle, Esprit libre
Olivier Meynard, Co-founder Sea Blocks
Dominique Michalon, Writer on social issues, founder of Alticentre
Cyril Micheau, Preservation of marine environments
Claude-Bernard Michelot, Technima
Laurent-Yann Minier, AktO Médias
Hélène Molinari, Sumus
Pascal Moret, Writer-director-producer La Belle Société Production
Emmanuelle Mouls, Managing Director - Renaissance Écologique
Mathilde Nizier, Engineer
Virginie Oks, Trainer
Serge Orru, Climate Academy
Violaine Pallud Negri, AF
Emmanuelle Parache, Biocenys
Deborah Pardo, Calanques National Park
Suzanne Pascal, Committed citizen
Anthony Pathéron, Director of the Fabrique des Transitions et de la Prospective. Dracénie Provence Verdon agglomeration
Nadege Payet, MAIOASIS
Astrid Pelletier, CEC co-leader of the Buildings & Real Estate pathway
Elodie Perez, Consultant
Luce-Marie Petit, Life Sciences and Innovation Support Project Manager, Ceebios
Astrid du Petit Thouars, Biodiversity Fresco
Gilles Picozzi, NWNUS
Laurence Pintenat, next 10!
Jasmina Pissareva, Retired
Jean-Michel Pommet, Founder and CEO of ZENI
Frederique Portolan, Natur'insight
Cécile Poujade, Entreprendre pour le Vivant Coordinator, Institut des futurs souhaitables
Annabelle Prin-Cojan, Being and Having
Émilie Proyart, Sustainable Strategy Partner, Founder of Sustainably
Francis Pruche, Engineer
Patrick Pujo, Aix-Marseille University
Aïna Queiroz, Aïna The Explorer
Anouk Rabesandratana, Independent consultant
Edith Raillard, Odonatis
Agnes Rambaud Paquin, Senior advisor on issues and people
Kalina Raskin, Managing Director, Ceebios
Georges Raskin, Retired
Katia Ravard, Pierre Fabre
Magali Ravoux, CSR Consultant
Kévin Raynaud, Engineer, Lineup Océan
Marius Réglier, Emeritus Research Director CNRS Aix-Marseille University
Olivier Renaud, Innovation Project Manager and Biodiversity R&D&I Manager, Natran
Catherine Renaudin, Biomim'expo, MAM Immobilier
Tristan Repolt, Biomim'expo, NewCorp Conseil
Patricia Ricard, President Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute
Blandine Ripert, Suez
Matthis Roublique, Ceebios
Jacques Rougerie, Member of the Institut, architect
Mélanie Rougier, DMV, Permaliance
Karim Saari, Vice-Chairman Team oxygen
Samir Sadik, Student
Victoria Saïdoun, Laser Game Evolution
Loève Saint-Ourens, Innovation Director
Cecile Sallé de chou, What counts
Christophe Sampels, for Lumia
Olivier Scheffer, Founding Partner, Strategic Development, Ceebios
Alioune Schurz
Chrystel Simone, Circular Clique
Rebecca Slattery, Corsica Sole
Isabelle Sourd
Anja Stoll, ImpactMaker
Antoine Tabeaud, Man of the sea
Marion Touchard, Head of Biodiversity at Séché Environnement
Hanaa Trifiss, Founder of McKinsey du Peuple
Céline Varenne-Souchon, Founder of Mengrov, Les Médiateurs du Vivant
Audrey Vermeulen, PhD student, Université Aix-Marseille
Romuald Vigier, Modulatio’
Dena Villanueva, Founder ECOSTATERA
Richard Vincent, Founding member MOLOCAN
Géraldine Vuillier, Co-founder of the Biodiversity Fresco
Zoé Waller, Corsica Sole
Pierre Willams, Sicame Group Innovation Director